{"id":1360020,"date":"2022-03-05T13:54:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T18:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1360020"},"modified":"2022-03-05T13:54:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T18:54:51","slug":"pope-francis-the-world-needs-fatherhood-and-tenderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-the-world-needs-fatherhood-and-tenderness\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: The World Needs \u2018Fatherhood and Tenderness\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpope-francis-the-world-needs-fatherhood-and-tenderness%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1360020&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">ROME \u2014 Pope Francis urged couples again on Saturday to consider adopting children, insisting that today\u2019s world needs \u201cfatherhood and tenderness\u201d more than ever.<\/p>\n<p>In a meeting in the Vatican with members of the Florence-based Agata Smeralda Project, which coordinates long-distance \u201cadoption\u201d to provide sustenance for children in need, the pontiff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/it\/speeches\/2022\/march\/documents\/20220305-progetto-agata-smeralda.html\">noted<\/a> that he has \u201ccommended and encouraged spouses who open their hearts and homes to welcome a child who has no family.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSimilarly, this sensitivity, this openness, this fatherhood and motherhood are also the basis of your commitment,\u201d he continued. \u201cIn fact, those who choose to carry out a long-distance adoption are motivated by the desire to lend a hand to a boy or girl so that he or she feels loved and does not lack what is necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you so much, because you cooperate in spreading God\u2019s tenderness, his fatherhood, which is the great gift that Jesus has given us, throughout the world,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is so much need for fatherhood and tenderness! \u2018Tenderness\u2019 is a word thrown out, many times, from the dictionaries of everyday life,\u201d he said, but the \u201creal revolution in the world is made by those who work day by day, without making any noise, so that the little ones and the poor are no longer despised, discarded, and abandoned.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI have read that to date you have some 7,000 active long-distance adoptions, involving many supporters and many lay people, nuns and priests who work in the peripheries of the world,\u201d Francis said. \u201cI thank the Lord with you! And I appreciate the fact that you attribute all of this to his Providence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In early January, the pope <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/faith\/2022\/01\/05\/pope-francis-in-todays-world-dogs-and-cats-take-the-place-of-children\/\">lamented<\/a> how many couples adopt pet animals instead of children and urged them to consider giving a home to the boys and girls who need one.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13111457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/team-parsons-adoption-tanya-parsons-facebook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13111457\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/team-parsons-adoption-tanya-parsons-facebook.jpg\" alt=\"WATCH: Boy\u2019s Long-Awaited Adoption Made Official via Conference Call\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>If you cannot have children, \u201cthink about adoption,\u201d Francis said. \u201cIt is a risk, yes: having a child is always a risk, either naturally or by adoption. But it is riskier not to have them. It is riskier to deny fatherhood, or to deny motherhood, be it real or spiritual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adoption \u201cis such a generous and beautiful, good attitude,\u201d he said. \u201cThis kind of choice is among the highest forms of love, and of fatherhood and motherhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many children in the world are waiting for someone to take care of them!\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd how many married couples want to be fathers and mothers but are unable to do so for biological reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should not be afraid to choose the path of adoption, to take the \u2018risk\u2019 of welcoming children,\u201d he urged.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME \u2014 Pope Francis urged couples again on Saturday to consider adopting children, insisting that today\u2019s world needs \u201cfatherhood and tenderness\u201d more than ever. 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